Saturday, June 21, 2014

These cute
cards were inspired by some I saw on Pinterst which were created by Michelle
Johns. They are quick and easy cards
that make cute little card sets which can be used as gifts.

The bases
are 5 ½ x 4 ¼” colonial white card bases.
Then I cut pieces of various papers from the Balloon Ride paper pack to
5 ¼ x 4” and distressed them using saddle ink and my trusty dauber. I then cut mats (here I used Saddle cardstock
but I also made some using Crystal Blue cardstock which went nicely with the
Balloon Ride papers) to 3 x 3”. I then
cut various B&T (Background and Texture) papers from the paper pack into 2
¾ x 2 ¾” squares that I then stamped using various stamp sets. I made over a dozen different cards just changing
around the papers within this paper pack and had a blast doing it.

Friday, June 13, 2014

Here are two
variations of the same card, I just attached the pieces differently for a new
look. I started with a colonial white
card base of 4 ¼ x 5 ½” and added a piece of the Skylark paper (the quatrefoil
side) cut at 4 ¼ x 5 ½ which was distressed using Lagoon Ink. I then added a strip of the Skylark paper
that was the blue semi-floral cut to 2 x 5 ½”.
The base of the sentiment is a piece of kraft cardstock cut to 3 ½ x 2 1/8”
topped with a piece of colonial white cut to 1 ¾ x 3 ¼” that has been stamped
with stamp set C1574 Believe in Yourself in Lagoon and Sweet leaf ink and
mounted using 3-D foam tape. The flags
are cut from the green chevron paper in the Skylark paper pack and are 1 ½ x
¾”’.

Friday, June 6, 2014

The Close to My Heart Workshops on the Go are a
great way to get inspiration and they come with lots of products that
coordinate (including a stamp set) as well as cutting and layout instructions so
that your pages will turn out great, however, I did take some liberties and
changed some of the embellishments around.
That is the great part of this, there is no right or wrong, just what
you like.

When I was done I still had some papers left and I
wanted to make more pages so I hit Pinterest to see what else was out there and
I found this idea that Susan Williams had posted and I used it (with a few
changes to make it my own).

The base is created with two sheets of 12 x 12” Hollyhock
cardstock.

The honeycomb accents
were made using the Artbooking cricut cartridge. Page 67, Shift, Overlay cut at 11” (cut 2 of
these, one for each page). Individual
honeycombs were also made using the Artbooking cricut cartridge. Page 66, Shift, Border cut at 1 ¼” – cut as
many B&T pieces and White Daisy pieces as you will need.

The White Daisy pieces are stamped with the
Honeycomb stamp set using Hollyhock, Desert Sand and Blush inks. Piece these into the honeycomb overlay and
then mount onto the Hollyhock base.

Cut B&T to 6 x 12
(if there is a pattern make sure paper is turned correctly before cutting since
this piece will be mounted horizontally), mount horizontally in center of each
page and over the top of the honeycomb overlay.

Add Zip Strips of
choice to sides (these are those cute little ½” strips added to the sides of
each of the three B&T (background and texture) papers included in the kit.

Flowers are created
using the Art Philosophy cricut cartridge.
Page 50, Shift, Layer, green is cut at 1”, hollyhock at 1 ½” and floral
at 1 ¾” they are then layered, glued together using Liquid Glass and a Purple
Glitter Gem is added to the center of each.

Supplies Used:

Papers, Purple Glitter
Gems, the Stamp Set and more are all in the Workshops on the Go Ivy Lane
(G1073)

Cricut cartridges: Art
Philosophy (Z1686), Artbooking (Z1906) and Artiste (Z1790) – shapes can be hand
cut if you do not have the cartridges.

Sunday, June 1, 2014

We had some fun with our May scrapbook workshop, here are the two layouts we completed. They were made using a retired paper from Close to My Heart called Avonlea. However, we used the Ivy Lane Cardmaking Workshop stamp set and the Sweet and Lovely stamp set from the Artbooking Cricut bundle (both available through my website or by clicking the shopping cart at the top of this blog). The idea was to show how you could take things that were meant to be used for something else, like the stamp set from the card workshop and be creative with it. Rule number 1 in crafting is have fun, rule number 2 is there are no rules.

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